Henry Cuyler Bunner

“Some H. C. Bunner stories, including 'What Mrs. Fortescue Did' and 'Zenobia's Infidelity' are read in Mister Ron's Basement Podcast”

“Off with your hat as the flag goes by!And let the heart have its say;You're man enough for a tear in your eyeThat you will not wipe away.”

“A pitcher of mignonette,In a tenement's highest casement:Queer sort of flower-pot—yetThat pitcher of mignonetteIs a garden in heaven set,To the little sick child in the basement—The pitcher of mignonette,In the tenement's highest casement.”

“Ah woe is me, through all my days Wisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men’s praise; But Love, ah! Love I have it not.”

“What, know you not […]That love must kiss that Mortal’s eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady?No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all bare—No wisdom won with weariness;But Love goes in with Folly’s dress—No fame that wit could ever win;But only Love may lead Love inTo Arcady, to Arcady.”

“What does he plant who plants a tree?He plants the friend of sun and sky;He plants the flag of breezes free;The shaft of beauty, towering high;He plants a home to heaven anighFor song and mother-croon of birdIn hushed and happy twilight heard—The treble of heaven's harmony—These things he plants who plants a tree.”

“Shake was a dramatist of note;He lived by writing things to quote.”